In sad and fluting irons



` handle in elevation.

detached.

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WILLIAM n.lnoBEETSoN, 0E KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE.

lMbnvi-:MNT IN SAD A`N`D FLUTING lRoNs.

4 "Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. `1112,22, datedFebruary 28, 1871.

I, WiLLIAM D. ROBERTSON, of Knoxville,"

in the county of Knox and State of Tennessee,

have invented a new and useful Combined Sad- Iron, Velvet Steamer, y andFlut-ing Iron, of which the following is a specication:

Nature and Objects of the Invention. My invention is designed to providea useful and convenient eombination'implement for the use of tailors,dress-makers, dyers and scourers, laundresses, and others employed inmaking and getting up 7 articles of wearing apparel, &c., moreespecially of the finer `descripl tion.

It consists, first, of `a stand, which may be either temporarilyattached to a table or other convenient obj ect by means 0f a clamp orotherwise. The stand is constructed more especiallyV for use with theimplements hereinafter described, but may be readily adapted for holdingand supporting various tools and utensils employed in other branches ofmechanical industry.

Second, of a reversible flat-iron and velvetsteamer with a removable'handle, heated internally, in usual manner. v

Third, of a flirting-iron of peculiar form, heated in similar way.

Description of the Accompanying Drawing.

Figure l is an elevation representing the stand as clamped to a table,the Sad-iron (shown in Section) being attached to the stand. Fig. 2shows thesad-iron in section and its v Fig. 3 is a rear end view of thesad-iron. Fig. 4C is a top view of the same with handle detached. Fig. 5is a sectional view of the fluting-iron attached to the stand. Fig. 6 isan end view of the-same.

Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the iiut-ing-iron General Description.The stand consists of a foot, a, a vertical branch, a', which may beeither straight or so curved as to admit of the most ready manipulationof the iuting or otheriron on the head thereof and the fabric undertreatment, and a head, A, of such shape, preferably slightly tapering,as to lit into grooves in the various `utensils which are intended to beused therewith,` permit their ready removal and replacement, asrequired.

The flat-iron C may be of usual shape, having an interior cavity for thereception of the heater G, which has a hole at rear, adaptiu g it to belifted in and out by means of a loose handle.

The iron itself has a slotted lug at front and an upwardly-projectingear at rear. The former of these is fitted to receive a dovetail on thelower part of the forward branch of the handle, and the latter serves asa stop for the backward branch of the handle, which is pivoted above,enabling it to be rotated so as to clear thestop when it is desired tolift the handle out. A thumb-screw, H, through the top of the shell ofthe iron presses the heater against l aware, of restoring velvets totheir original smoothness of appearance when the plush was ruffled orcrushed having hitherto been for one person to hold the iron upsidedown, while another drew the material, previously damped on the wrongside, over the iron.

My device, besides greatly lessening the labor, dispenses with theservices of one operatorfor this purpose. It also affords a superiormeans of finishing the getting up of dresswaists and other gathered workby drawing the same over the bottom of the iron when'in- .verted,enabling the operator to see clearly what is being done, instead ofhaving the part being ironed hidden iorn view, as is the case whenironing in the usual way on a table.

`When the more difficult part of the work is thus :iinished, the ironcan be taken oft' the stand, the handle almost instantaneously replaced,and the implement used in the ordinary way.

The outer shell ofthe iiuting-iron D is cylindrical throughout thegreater partof` its'len gth,

has a conoidal point and a shank with a dovetail mortise, into which thetenon A of the stand iits.

rEhe heater J is adapted in form to fit the interior of the shell B, soas to ai'ord uniform heat to every part of the actin g surface of theiron, and is taken out and replaced in manner before described.

Any number of different-sized irons may be adapted to iit the tenen A.

The iuting-iron, by its form and manner o heating and mounting, ispeculiarly adapted for iinishing or ironing the ilounces of dresses,trimmingsrills, ruffles, &e., they being drawn over the iron,thetapering point of' which may be pressed up into the gathers, giving asmooth iinish to parts which can be reached, if at all, only with greatdifficulty in the ordinary Way.

Claims.

I claim as my invention- WILLIAM D. ROBERTSON.

Witnesses CHARLES SEYMOUR, GHAs. II. BROWN.

